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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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DEVELOPING THE CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF COMMERCIAL CREDITING
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2017 The article analyzes the conceptual apparatus of the commercial credit for organizations. The author shows key types of trade credits, provisions of credit policy of the enterprise, the system of this policy administration, the model of using commercial ...
Elena A. Erina
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, 2007 The Essay begins in Part I with a summary of the problems presented by standardized terms in consumer transactions. Part II describes the contracting practices that dominate the modern credit card industry. I argue that sophisticated card issuers have learned to exploit the boilerplate features of their agreements to produce a set of dynamic ...
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Do Consumers Choose the Right Credit Contracts? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 We analyze an experiment conducted by a large U.S. bank that offered consumers achoice between two credit card contracts, one with an annual fee but a lowerinterest rate and one with no annual fee but a higher interest rate. We findthat on average consumers chose the credit contract that minimized their costs.A substantial fraction of consumers (about ...
Agarwal, Sumit +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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Risk of Credit Cooperatives: An analysis based on the profile of the cooperated
Revista Sociedade, Contabilidade e Gestão, 2012 This work has as purpose to analyze among the credit operations, those that generate larger breach of contract risk for the cooperative, with base in the profile of the cooperated, and to identify which the strategies can be pointed to avoid possible ...
José Roberto de Souza Francisco +2 more
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Contract Farming Preferences of Smallholder Rice Producers in Benin: A Stated Choice Model Using Mixed Logit Erodibility [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2017 In developing countries, smallholder farmers face many constraints including lack of information, and lack of access to credit and markets. To overcome these constraints, smallholder farmers can engage in contract farming. However, contract farming needs
Arouna, A. +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Can Soft Clauses in Letter of Credit Transactions Be Considered Letter of Credit Fraud in China?
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2011 Documentary credit (also letter of credit, or more formally documentary letter of credit), which was created in trade and business several hundred years ago, is a well known financial method for international trade parties nowadays.
Yanan Zhang
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